Otto Wagner

(1841–1918) österrikisk arkitekt

Otto Wagner (1841–1918) is listed in the catalogue as an architect. By year of birth, Otto Wagner belongs to the chapter ‘Industrialisation’ in this site’s history of architecture.

Otto Wagner was born in Penzing and died in Vienna. Otto Wagner trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Akademisches Gymnasium. Otto Wagner worked in Vienna and Budapest. Wikidata associates Otto Wagner with Art Nouveau and Vienna Secession. The awards include Order of Franz Joseph, Order of Saint Stanislaus, Order of the Iron Crown (Austria), and honorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology. The students included Koloman Moser, Jože Plečnik, Ernst Lichtblau, and Emil Hoppe.

The best-known works include ‘Vienna Lines houses by Otto Wagner’, ‘Villa Wagner I’, ‘Villa Wagner II’, and ‘Austrian Postal Savings Bank’. The catalogue has 23 buildings by Otto Wagner. The dated buildings span the years 1858–1981. The buildings are in places such as Vienna, Margareten, Gemeindebezirk Innere Stadt, Hietzing, and Innere Stadt. They are in 2 countries. According to Wikidata, buildings by Otto Wagner belong to the styles ‘Art Nouveau’ and ‘Historicism’.

Contemporary architects in the same chapter include Paul Wallot, John Belcher, Otto Brückwald, Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, and Otto Wagner.